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Sunday August 17, 2025. 01:00 AM
Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.”
An anonymous reader shared this report from Tom's Hardware: According to German news outlet Heise, notable progress has been made regarding the counterfeit Seagate hard drive case. Just like something out of an action movie, security teams from Seagate's Singapore and...
Saturday August 16, 2025. 11:49 PM
'Illinois last week banned the use of artificial intelligence in mental health therapy,' reports the Washington Post, 'joining a small group of states regulating the emerging use of AI-powered chatbots for emotional support and advice.' Licensed therapists in Illinois are...
'The planet Uranus emits more heat than it gets from the Sun,' reports Science Daily, citing a new study led by University of Houston researchers, in collaboration with planetary scientists worldwide. 'This means it's still slowly losing leftover heat from its early...
'Several cybersecurity companies debuted advancements in AI agents at the Black Hat conference last week,' reports Axios, 'signaling that cyber defenders could soon have the tools to catch up to adversarial hackers.' - Microsoft shared details about a prototype for a new...
Matt Asay answered questions from Slashdot readers in 2010 as the then-COO of Canonical. Today he runs developer marketing at Oracle (after holding similar positions at AWS, Adobe, and MongoDB). And this week Asay contributed an opinion piece to InfoWorld reminding us of...
Slashdot reader darwinmac writes: Volkswagen is offering a subscription model for extra horsepower on its ID.3 electric cars. Want to bump your ride from the standard 201 bhp to the full 228 bhp? That will be about £16.50 per month or £165 per year, or a one-time £649 "lifeti...
Puerto Rico expects 93 different power outages this summer, reports the Washington Post. But they also note that 'roughly 1 in 10 Puerto Rican homes now have a battery and solar array for backup power' which have also 'become a crucial source of backup power for the entire...
'Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst,' one tells The Reg Feature Bill Gates, an Arizona election official and former Maricopa County supervisor, says that the death threats started shortly after the 2020 presidential election.…
ChatGPT now has nearly 700 million weekly users, OpenAI says. But after launching GPT-5 last week, critics bashed its less-intuitive feel, reports CNBC, 'ultimately leading the company to restore its legacy GPT-4 to paying chatbot customers.' Yet GPT-5 was always about...
Last month, Python 'reached the highest ranking a programming language ever had in the TIOBE index,' according to TIOBE CEO Paul Jansen. 'We thought Python couldn't grow any further, but AI code assistants let Python take yet another step forward.' According to recent...
I sent my cats' saliva to the lab to get health and genetic insights sent to my inbox—with very different results.
Shopping for a phone can be an ordeal. That’s why we’ve tested almost every Android phone, from the smartest to the cheapest—even phones that fold—to find those worth your money.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Drug treatment can help people newly diagnosed with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) to reduce their risk of substance misuse, suicidal behavior, transport accidents and criminality, a study suggests. These...
This Acer laptop’s top-tier performance is undone by bottom-shelf stability.
DJI’s debut 360 camera is a strong challenger to the Insta360 X5. Too bad it’s not officially available in the US.
These ten features would make users more productive OPINION From desktop alerts begging you to sign up for Xbox Game Pass to a second-chance out-of-the-box experience that insists you need Microsoft 365, Windows has a hard time taking 'no' for an answer. The operating...
Procedural hurdles yet again foil progress on a global agreement to end plastic pollution.
Cupertino has done the thing it swore it never would: turn its tablet into a full-blown window-wrangling, compromise-abandoning computer. Yes, it’s better, but lurking deep in the settings the ghost of Jobs remains.
Plus: Ultrahuman’s Ring now tracks ovulation, Nomad Cycles wants to make a fully repairable ebike, and Sling TV has new subscription options.
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